My thoughts by Paul M. Dugan

I didn't know it was so hard to get dinner in 2012. 6 hours before the new year 2013. If you try to go to any like Sweet Water Tavern (http://www.greatamericanrestaurants.com/m/) with others like them because they are very busy with hour & half wait. It's very busy tonight in our area too. Happy New Year's in 2013!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I hope your holidays are doing well this days.  My Christmas went very well when some of the family came in town

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, Santa Claus my nephews fell sleep around 8:30pm et tonight. They hope they get there gifts deserved from you a magical person. Yes lots of things are jumping in the heads to be happy about on visiting there family for Christmas this year. Merry Christmas to all. To all a Good Night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The weather - Oh well it's very cold here but it's still just allot of rain still coming down while its foggy outside.

It's being cold out but no snow yet & that's very disappointed to us near Christmas Time. My nephews want a white Christmas while there here. Come on we need some white snow out here.

NOTRE DAME 2012 review show today 2pm et on NBC for football. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am unable to see this right now because I guess they are showing this in the midwest first. We got cartoon playing on NBC today.

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I hope it went well. I ordered only 2 of my presents for Christmas online. Most of the presents I bought around stores near me to be less cheaper because some times online stuff isn't cheap. I saved some money when I did that. Take care. Happy holidays too.

Hope the holidays go well for you. A few pictures of the front our house with our Christmas lights on.

ND Men basketball game was delayed because of Butler vs Indiana game went to OT (Butler won too). Both games were at Indianapolis, IN (home of the nba team known as the pacers). Take care & GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is Kentucky & North Carolina men basketball so over rated this season? NOTRE DAME already showed Kentucky very young time after beating them by 25pts this season at Notre Dame. Take care. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At this time I did just joined two bowl pick'em fantasy games for college bowl season. Too many makes me crazy. Sorry 2 other people invited me to there but I do not know them at all so I didn't join them. If I invited you to my yahoo one I hoped you joined to make it a fun game for the bowl season. I know not all like college football. Take care. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The parents & I saw the Capitol Christmas Tree by the Washington, D.C. Capitol Building on the west lawn earlier today. Here are some lovely pictures I took while I was there. Hope you like the pictures I took with my iPhone 4 S-G while there. Take care & peace too.

After a bad day in the news at the little school in Conn. Why won't the N.R.A. work with Congress & the President to get gun laws tighter in the U.S.A. society and not hurt your second amendment rights???????? Come on get with it people right now!!!!!!!

I saw 4 to 5 meteors (flying stars) that went really fast for a short time around 3:00am et this morning. It was pretty cool to see. Take care. Good night to all. Hope you saw it too.

Around 3am et to see the meteors at there peak.. Take care too.

So who will watch the meteors shower in the U.S.A. tonight? Take care & be safe tonight too. Time is at 11:00am et..

As of today I rather listen & watch holiday stuff before I watch anything about how University of Notre Dame Football will do for the bcs title in January by ESPN, NBC, CBS, fox & etc.... GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out my blog this December before & after University of Notre Dame Peel part bama like pullpork/chicken on January 7th, 2013 for the bcs title game for college football. Well Notre Dame won some awards that won't go to there head this season as usually media & fans have a love/hate toward Notre Dame and I don't care because the media didn't know the football team would succeed like this. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More info later about ND Football.. Well I saw & heard that Manchester United F.C. is ahead in the e.p.l. again and did well in the uefacl too. GO MANUTDFC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our mom & I got a Douglas Fir early today. Hope we can get looking great before our family from Chicago, IL comes & visiting us this Christmas. Take care. Peace too.

Sorry to see the movie world ruined my childhood toys/cartoons: transformers, smurfs & g.i. joe and etc this time. Need them redone very soon too.

I felt shame when the heisman trophy - heisman trust fell part from influence by ESPN & other sports societies. The heisman way is gone to the birds since 99.5% of the time it goes to offense minded player. A very rare to a defense player to win. They just don't get times changed & it's cool to a defender too. Just old heisman winners are just too old to vote for newer things. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Manti Te'o Rocks college football!!!!!!!! Poor ncaa just losers who can't do much this days. Too slow to keep schools (universities & colleges) out of trouble.

I guess the republicans don't want to get the congressional budget done yet because they think they won the election this past November. Well the democrats won some seats both in the house (republicans run it) & senate (democrats run it) and Obama got a second term for President. Come on you dumb congress get it done now.

2012 NOTRE DAME COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM award show - THE ECHOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://hqplayer.nbcsports.com/Player.html?PID=99

Why is it so easy to get pissed off at espn/abc when they put my University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish sports on is when there con mentors talk so much & not watching the game. I just want to know about the game.  I hope ncaa gets to universities & colleges to have players take serious majors (not sports information when that's a hobby that I do). GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am doing pretty all get out there trying to find a job in this world. I see the iTunes got a new version 11 for a MAC ( Apple ) computer. It's cool to use too. If your a big UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL FAN like me you should have heard ND FOOTBALL is playing for the title in Miami, FL. versus Alabama on Jan. 7th, 2013.  More info about the bcs is right here. More bowl pairings by espn beside the title game: other bowls .  Take Care & GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More cool articles later tomorrow:

Just some info about the Heisman Trophy - http://www.heisman.com/ index.php  - Can people tell me why manziel (texasA&M) & Klein (kansas-st) can challenge Manti Te'o of the University of Notre Dame  Football? Texasa&m is 10-2 record and Kansas-St is 11-1 record compared to NOTRE DAME is 12-0 record ( UNDEFEATED still!!!!!!!! ). GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

The BCS Standings: BCS Harris Poll USA Today Computer Rankings RK TEAM AVG PVS RK PTS % RK PTS % AVG A&H RB CM KM JS PW % 1 Notre Dame .9978 1 1 2866 .9969 1 1470 .9966 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.000 2 Alabama .9441 2 2 2765 .9617 2 1417 .9607 3 4 2 4 3 3 3 .910 3 Florida .8984 4 4 2480 .8626 4 1287 .8725 2 2 6 2 2 2 2 .960 4 Oregon .8621 5 3 2548 .8863 3 1313 .8902 6 6 4 6 6 5 6 .810 5 Kansas State .8226 6 6 2332 .8111 6 1190 .8068 4 3 3 5 8 4 7 .850 6 Stanford .7683 8 7 2142 .7450 8 1047 .7098 4 5 5 3 5 6 4 .850 7 Georgia .7583 3 5 2388 .8306 5 1216 .8244 11 10 10 11 11 9 11 .620 8 LSU .7511 7 8 2128 .7402 7 1111 .7532 7 8 8 9 4 7 5 .760 9 Texas A&M .6756 9 9 1991 .6925 9 1039 .7044 10 11 11 10 9 11 9 .630 10 South Carolina .6604 10 10 1838 .6393 10 947 .6420 9 9 9 8 10 8 8 .700 11 Oklahoma .6502 11 11 1745 .6070 11 890 .6034 8 7 7 7 7 10 10 .730 12 Florida State .5047 13 12 1655 .5757 12 853 .5783 16 17 14 15 24 21 15 .360 13 Oregon State .4716 15 14 1280 .4452 14 663